Case study: Re-engineering C++ component models via automatic program transformation
Information and Software Technology
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We present a grammar based approach for specifying a transformation as a sequence of transformation operations that operate on an intermediate representation. The transformation sequence is specified in the semantic actions of an abstract attribute grammar. The mapping between the object-oriented design of the intermediate representation and the abstract grammar directly reflects the objectoriented design in the structure of the grammar. It has properties that permit utilizing grammar based tools at arbitrary abstraction levels of the language representation. The program fragments can be both source strings and fragments of the intermediate representation that can be used interchangeably in the specification.